The document discusses several endangered animals, including pangolins, black rhinoceros, leatherback sea turtles, orangutans, red pandas, and Asian elephants. These animals are facing population declines and endangerment due to hunting for traditional medicine, the ivory trade, habitat loss, and other human activities. The quiz questions at the end test knowledge about unique animal migration patterns, distributions, physical traits, and endangered species.

1. Animals In Danger
Animals that are rapidly disappearing from Earth are called as
disappearing animals.

2. Pangolins
● Also known as ‘scaly ant eaters’. They curl into a ball when under threat.
● Some species like African black-bellied pangolin live entirely in trees. Others
live on land.
● Hunted for their meat, skin and scale. Often used in traditional medicine.
● This hunting has led them to become endangered.

4. Black Rhinoceros
● Is the smaller of the two rhino species from Africa.
● Rampantly hunted for horns by poachers.
● Horn is used to make traditional medicines and ornaments such as
bracelets.
● Their hunting is also a source of danger to their grassland habitat.

6. Leatherback Sea Turtle
● Shells have a leather-like appearance. Thus, their name.
● They are world’s largest Sea turtles.
● Eat jellyfish and maintain jellyfish population.
● Increased capture and egg collection has led to a decline in numbers.
● Are now critically endangered.

8. Orangutans
● Identified by their red fur.
● Are the largest mammals that live on the trees.
● Found in Sumatra and Borneo rainforests of Southeast Asia.
● Due to habitat loss and hunting, their numbers have declined sharply.

10. Red Pandas
● Two feet in length, slightly bigger than a house cat and have a bear like
body.
● Live in trees of Eastern Himalayas.
● Less than 10,000 exist in the wild.
● Cause of population decline is the loss of trees and bamboo in the forests.

12. Asian elephants
● Are of great cultural, religious significance in Asia.
● Are smaller than African elephants.
● Have smaller, rounder ears.
● Suffer habitat loss due to expanding human settlement, agriculture, dam
building and other large scale construction activities. This leads to a
population decline.
● They are also poached for their ivory tusks, meat,leather and other proucts.

14. Quiz Time
1) Which animal makes the longest migration?

15. Arctic tern

16. 2) Which continent has the rare black spider monkey?

17. South America

18. 3) Which sub-species of tigers is the largest?

19. Siberian TIger

20. 4) Which endangered toothed whale is the largest?

21. Sperm whale

22. 5) The cape hunting dogs or hyena dogs are one of the world's most endangered
animals and differ from other dogs in having only four toes on each foot. On
which continent are they found?

23. Africa

24. 6)Name the apes, also called pygmy chimpanzees, which are found only in the
rainforests of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

25. Bonobo apes